Brian Hajeski, 41, of Brick, N.J., reacts after looking at debris of a home that washed up on to the Mantoloking Bridge in Mantoloking, N.J.

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Lisa Nellessen-Lara
lnelless@muncie.gannett.com

By 9 p.m. Tuesday, Wayne Loudy had been hard at work for 17 hours - and the day wasn't over yet.

The advanced EMT with the Delaware County EMS still had five more patients to transfer to a shelter before his team could head back to their temporary barracks - and hopefully hot pizza. The team wasn't complaining, however, because they knew they had homes to return to, unlike many of their patients.

Hurricane Sandy decimated the towns in which the East Central Indiana paramedics and support staff spent their day assisting local efforts. ...